MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
In this talk, Dartmouth's Mary Flanagan reveals how games can be sources of deep human inquiry and introspection.
Instead of a narrow emphasis on political effects, Aswin Punathambekar draws on a range of cases across India, China, and the Middle East to ask: what happens when such phases of participation fade away?
Textual Science, as Gregory Heyworth argues, is poised to change the established order of things. With images of recovered works, many previously unseen, this talk will chart the way ahead in theory and praxis.
UCSB's Michael Curtin explores the implications of national cultural policy within the broader context of media globalization.
Middlebury's Jason Mittell on how television narratives have expanded and been complicated through transmedia extensions, including video games, novelizations, websites, online video, and alternate reality games.
Vicki Mayer speaks on the impacts of regional policies for film production on ordinary people’s understandings of time, space and place.
Games scholar Miguel Sicart of the IT University of Copenhagen looks at the culture, aesthetics, and technological implications of play in the age of computers.
McGill's Jonathan Sterne gives a cultural history of auto-tune as a form of signal processing, drawing on patent documents, interviews, operational protocols, tuning standards and competing acoustemologies.
In this presentation, Meredith Schweig explores the gender politics and practices of the Taiwan rap scene.
Legendary former MIT professor and housemaster Henry Jenkins returns to the Forum for a conversation about his time at the Institute and the founding of CMS as well as his path-breaking scholarship on contemporary media.
Kate Crawford is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research (Social Media Collective) and a Visiting Professor at the MIT Center for Civic Media. She is currently working on a new book.
Barry Werth's most recent book, The Antidote: Inside the World of Big Pharma, gives an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at how a cash-starved startup became one of the great triumphs of American bio-tech innovation.
Hanya Yanagihara, Alan Lightman, and Rebecca Goldstein discuss the unique challenges of respecting the exacting standards of science in fictional texts.
Join CMS/W for thesis presentations by students in the Comparative Media Studies masters program. Free and open to the public.
Susan Murray on the discourses that framed and managed color use and reception not only in the standardization period, but also during RCA and NBC's early attempts to sell color to consumers, sponsors, and critics.
